The Dillon tribune., 1887-04-15
0LEANINGS FROM THE ROCKIES,
Events Transpiring In Our Sister States
and Territories.

! and Territories.
Placer mining operations, in the Salmon
river country, have commenced in earnest.
| The recent session Of the Colorado Leg.
stature cost $ll5,ooo and the bills are not
all in yet.
Great real estate activity prevails at
Cheyenne, Wyoming, and everybody is
! confident in the boom.
4 million brick has been ordered for the
new capitol building at Cheyenne, Wyo.
ming, and work is 70 be pushed on it.
David J. Kelley, Of Denver, has sold to
ST. Louis parties = group Of mines in tile
State OF Durango Old Mexico, for $780,.
900.
| Cheyenne has sold 400 acres OF land to
the B. & NJ, and right OF way is granted to
an allied corporation that is just formed to
build to that city
Most OF the miners at the Vinla mine,
at Nicholia, Idaho, have been laid off until
the broken tra,nwav cable can be replaced
with new one. The old cable cost $s,oco
The California Co operative Colony has
bought 1000 acres OF the Ceri.os ranch
near Long Beach, at $40 per acre. The
colony will be founded on the principle OF
integral CO. operation.
While burning pile Of rubbish at Colo.
rado Springs on the 9TH, Mrs. G.. q. New.
ins met with a fatal accident. Her dress
caught fire, and she was so badly burned
that she died next day.
Robert Torbett was arrested in Denver
on the 9th for attempting to kill woman
BY clubbing her to death with rife. liz
knocked he, down several times and then
shot at her but missed. He was placed in
Jail.
Last week Wednesday Austin Merrill,
who lived at the head OF Boulder creek,
near Shoup, Idaho, was killed by the acci.
dental discharge Of his revolver, while he
was in the act of taking drink from a
creek.
The stranger who died at Casa Grange,
Arizona, few days ago with smallpox,
said his name was Ham English, and be.
fore he died he confessed to having mur
dered three men and one woman during
his wicked career.
The HALEY Qdaho) Ne:as.!lii~er says
some time ago party Of prospectors
started after some rich placer ground in
the upper country that was claimed to be
worked by Cinnamon. The party is re-.
ported to have found the place, about TWEEN.
sy.five miles from Sawtooth City. The
ground is said to be no good for white
men after all.
Virginia Enterprise: Among the degcn.
crate whites, women are termed the "weak.
er vessels" A Piute squaw may not be u
'vessel' at all, but IL she is she is not Of
the weak sort. At Austin the other day
a squaw took three FIFTY pound sacks OF
-four ON her back; then on top OF this
placed yearling pappoose, when she trot.
ted off As briskley as a young colt.
Browning Bros, Of Ogden, recently sold
to the Winchester Arms company new
patent magazine shotgun and rifle for $S,.
600 cash. This makes fourteen patents
this firm has sold to this company, tor
prices ranging from S. COO up. The presi.
dent of the Winchester Company has sig.
nificd his willingness to purchase all the
patents the Brownings may bring out.
! A bloody riot occurred late Monday
night, at Denver, Colo, between the rival
Swede, Pole, and Hungarian colonies at
! Thirty. Fourth and Blake streets. whicn re.
suited in fatally sh. o,ing cne man and
seriously wounding several others, and il,
was the combined efforts of the police
force and patrol wagons alone that pre-.
vented the affair resulting in "a wholesale
massacre.
J. Kink and Carl Carlson, living neigh.
bors on the Pah Simari, says the Challi.
iIdaho) Messenger, have no, been good
friends. On March 3lst Carlson heard
King driving some cattle and rode over to
see il he had any Of his. They quarreled
and King went after his rife. Returning,
he dismounted when within twenty feet
Of Carlson, and laying his gun across his
saddle, fired, shooting Carlson through the
head, killing him instantly, Carlson was
unarmed.
On the night Of the sth four masked
men, all Mexicans, went in the section
house ut Calabasas, nine miles north of
the Mexican line, and after binding ard